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Definition
a very typical or the original example of something- She identifies six boyfriend archetypes.
archetypes = different types of typical examples
- They are archetypal images—judging, punishing, pitiless.Peter Shaffer -- Equus
- It was an archetypal force, as Chiron would say—something that could never really die.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype.Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
- He was the archetypal petit-bourgeois, cautious, complacent, mean.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- This"—she paused for emphasis—"is the archetype of an inclined plane...... You'll not find its equal anywhere.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- Archetypal Germans, the odd Jew, the boys from the east.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- He looked like the archetypal sinister magician that seems to be a requirement in so many bad Aturan plays.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- An archetype of the unknown.Rodman Philbrick -- Freak the Mighty
- Chiron calls them archetypes.Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
- It was the archetype of archetypes; Paralon was the reality that the legend of Camelot aspired to be.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- Like some archetype of the universal unconscious, the image of the gentleman caller haunted our small apartment.Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- She was the embodiment of that Victorian archetype, Constant Reader.Stephen King -- Misery
- This is in some ways the archetypal Lois Weisberg story.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- I have never seen anything in the real world to suggest the Ancient Mysteries are anything other than legend—a recurring mythological archetype.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- Though untrained as an architect, he came up with a design that was simple, memorable, and archetypal.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- As Dr. Jung points out, the theory of the archetypes is by no means his own invention.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- The conditions of verse in different languages vary so widely as to make any versified translation of a poem but an imperfect reproduction of the archetype.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- Wily veterans, on the other hand, will absorb those details, or possibly overlook them, to find the patterns, the routines, the archetypes at work in the background.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- And no wonder: political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on the fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or thatpolitical kitsch.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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